Cheis schmidt



G. SCHMIDT,

MEAT CHOPPER.

Patented Jan.23, 1883.

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHRIS SCHMIDT, OF BURLINGTON, IOWA, ASSIGNOR- TO MOLLIE SCHMIDT, OF SAME PLACE.

MEAT-CHOPPER,

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 271,135, dated January 28, 1883.

' Application filed August 18, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1', CHRIS SCHMIDT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Burlington, in the county of Des Moines and State of 5 Iowa, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Meat-Choppers, of which the following is a specification. Y

The object of my invention is to provide a meat-chopper in which a tub having a backto wartl-and-iorward, as well as a rotary, movement is used in connection with a rockingcutter, the whole being operated by the reciprocating motion of a lever attached to an eccentric wheel. To accomplish this, I use upon a frame. with legs a horizontal slide with a tub upon it securely fastenedupon the upper surface of a horizontal ratchet-wheel, which rotates around a projection from the bottom of the tub as an axis. In the tub I put a rocking cutter composed of a series of curved knives set parallel to each other.

In the drawings, Figure l is a vertical section of the whole device. Fig.2 is a top view of the machine with the tub and knives re- 2 moved. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the machine.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in the drawings.

A is the frame, provided with legs a a a a,

0 uprights Z) b, and slots S S, S being cut shallow where S isdeep, and the reverse.

B is the slide. The frame A is provided with thefixed hanger c, the pin d, the pawls O 0, the springs 0 o, and the ratchet-wheel R.

D is the eccentric wheel turned by the shaft 0 and connected with the hanger c by a rod, 19.

E is a shaft turning in journals in the upper ends of the uprights b I), provided with the hanger eand the fixed perforated standards g g. The hanger c is connected with the slide B by a rod, c, jointed to the pin d.

. F is the rocking cutter, of which the outer knives are each furnished with an upright, h h. The uprights g g andh h are connected 5 with each other attop and bottom by the loose reciprocating rods m on n n.

M is the tub, with slots Z l and bottom projection, k, to form the axis of the ratchet-wheel, which has lugs Z Z to hold the tub in place.

0 and O are reciprocating pawls, whose outer ends slide in the slots S and S, respectively, and are reciprocally acted upon by the V spiral springs 0 and 0,respectively, to give the ratchet-wheel aslow rotary motion. The spiral springs are attached to the slide B.

The operation of my invention is as follows: The eccentric is set in motion by hand-lever, or otherwise, which causes the slidle to move backward and forward alternately, thus changing the reciprocating movement of the eccen- 6o trio into the rotary movement of the ratchetwheel, and causing the tub to rotate slowly around the axis while sliding backward and forward. It also lends a rapid rocking motion to the cutter.

It. is obvious that this construction is simple and the machine easily worked. The perforations in the uprights, it will be evident, are for the purpose of regulating the cutter.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, in a meatchopper, of the frame A, provided with slots S and S, legs a a a a, uprights b b, shaft E, provided with perforated uprights g g, and hanger c, with the tub M, ratchet 1t, sliding frame B, pawls O and O, and cutter F, substantially as and for the purpose named.

2. The combination, in a meat-chopper, of the tub M with the frame A, slide B, eccen- 8o tric D, rod 19, and the ratchet-wheel R, the reciprocating pawls 0 and 0, whose outer ends slide in the slots S and S, respectively, and

.are reciprocally acted upon by spiral springs 0 and 0, respectively, substantial y as and for the purpose described.

CHRIS SCHMIDT.

Witnesses:

N or'r. S. HAMMACK, D. M. HAMMACK. 

